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From the Ground Up: How Land Trusts and Conservancies are Providing Solutions to Climate Change

This Policy Focus Report presents a dozen case studies that demonstrate how land trusts, conservancies, and other nongovernmental civic organizations have meaningfully addressed climate change over the past several decades. These organizations are working to protect land, biodiversity, and historic resources in more than 100 countries on ...
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Resource Type ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Green Infrastructure Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration Privately Protected Areas Stewardship and Land Management

The Partnership for Gulf Coast Land Conservation: Catalyzing Natural Climate Solutions for Coastal Resilience in the Gulf Coast

ILCN

This case explores the land conservation sector’s response to the Deepwater horizon Oil spill of 2010. It focuses on the establishment of the Partnership for Gulf Coast Conservation, and addressesthe utilization of disaster relief funding in land conservation as a green infrastructure solution. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Law and Policy / Organization and Governance

Ant Forest: Using Financial Technologies to Advance Climate Solutions in China

ILCN

This case study explores how a Chinese financial technology giant –Ant Group –embraced the nascent idea of green finance by developing an innovative personal carbon account called Ant Forest and linking it with a variety of afforestation and nature protection programs run by non-profit partners. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

Addressing Critical Climate Impacts Through Landscape-Scale Partnerships: The Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy's Story of Collaboration and Innovation

ILCN

This case explores how the partnerships and networks developed among land managers at organizations around Mt. Tam have led to their collective increased impact and the proliferation of similar partnerships and networks. 
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Resource Type Case Studies / ILCN/Lincoln Institute Publication
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance

Sebago Source Protection: Collaboration, Conservation & Co-Investment in a Drinking Water Supply

ILCN

This case study tells the story of a partnership between ten stakeholder organizations that banded together to protect the Sebago watershed, the region's drinking water, and the myriad co-benefits the forestland provides to the greater Portland area. 
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Resource Type Case Studies
Topic Governance / Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Policy / Stewardship and Land Management

Levitt presents on innovative wind-power strategies at 17th annual Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event

ILCN

Jim Levitt, director of the International Land Conservation Network (ILCN), spoke at the 17th annual Symphony in the Flint Hills Signature Event on June 11 in Chase County, Kansas. He shared lessons from the Site Wind Right initiative, which aimed to enable a healthy balance between conservation and sustainable development in the United S...
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Resource Type News
Topic Green Infrastructure / Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Stewardship and Land Management

The Inaugural African Protected Areas Congress is a First Step in the Vision for an African Conservation Network

   
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Resource Type News
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN Webinar: Approaches to Land Conservation in Africa- Consolidating knowledge &practice through an Africa Network

International Land Conservation Network

The final installment in the ILCN's Land Conservation in Africa Webinar Series focuses on networks and information exchange across the continent. This webinar brings together speakers to explore the future of land conservation in Africa, setting the stage for further network conversations at the Africa Protected Areas Congress in July. Th...
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance

Rengifo-Grau hopes to 'move the hearts of the people' as head of Chile's first biodiversity conservation fund

ILCN


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Resource Type News
Topic Finance / Organization and Governance

Approaches to Land Conservation in Africa- The Case of OECMs and West Africa

International Land Conservation Network

In this second installment of the 2022 Land Conservation in Africa Webinar Series, we heard from experts on land conservation approaches in West Africa as well as Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures (OECMs) in meeting the 30 x 30 target. We discussed conservation finance as well as the challenges and opportunities of raising ...
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Large Landscape Conservation and Restoration / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management

ILCN Webinar: Practice, Progress and Potential for Private and Civic Land Conservation in Africa

International Land Conservation Network

In this first webinar of the Africa Land Conservation Webinar Series we hear from experts who are working with national governments and stakeholders in Southern and Eastern Africa to realize the role of civic and private land organizations in meeting the 30 x 30 target.
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Resource Type Webinars
Topic Law and Policy / Organization and Governance / Privately Protected Areas / Stewardship and Land Management